Senior Risk Advisor/Operational Compliance and Controls Assessment

Drew McDonald 919-***-**** ************@*******.***

Risk and Controls Management Via Strategic Planning & Tactical Execution Cary, NC https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdrewmcdonald/

Senior Controls and Compliance Advisor

Technology Operational Audit and SOX Compliance

Professional Qualifications Profile

Business leader and trusted advisor with a record of success in SOX compliance, financial and operational audit leadership for IBM’s Global Business Partners Sales channel, with a strong foundation in marketing enablement, and process design, while performing with Agile Global support teams.

Key Accomplishments

»Operational Audit/Risk analysis For Quarterly SOX 404 Certification – Trusted advisor, with demonstrated success in mitigating risks of financial and reputational loss through controls management and testing. Example: as Global Business partner Controls lead, ensured appropriate level of quarterly testing of business partner disbursement programs (FY $100M spend). Satisfactory Process ratings attained for all quarters – 2008 - 2020.

»Team management – Highly experienced and adept in creating audit plans, assigning reviews, documenting and testing accounting controls, reviewing results, and developing recommendations to ensure audit readiness. Internal Controls and Sarbanes Oxley compliance leadership including assuring Satisfactory quarterly audit ratings.

»Enabling Client Success – Worked closely with the business unit process owners to ensure they were prepared and presented appropriate detail to internal auditors and PWC. Provided critical advice and counsel to Channel management team regarding business controls, with a special focus on third party vendor’s Annual Service Organization Controls (SOC Type 2) reporting requirements.

»Partnered with Channel Management - Provided controls advice and leadership during multiple Business Partner Management Internal Corporate Audits, including tracking all auditor requests and following up on reported concerns.

»Global Risk And Controls Project – Served as North America SME for Project to assess all Business partner controls by process and, after analysis, recommend to senior management both retirements and updates.

Key business roles and Strengths

Controls and Audit Planning

Business Process Improvement

People Dynamics / Team Leadership

Transition to Cloud Computing

Operational Management

Business Partner Compliance

Big 4 Audit Coordination

Budgeting / Cost Control

Project & Program Management

Corporate Governance/FCPA issues

SOX 404 Certification

Internal Controls/US GAAP

Client Enablement/Audit Readiness

Business Partner Disbursements

Enterprise Risk Management

Technical Skills: MS Office Suite - Excel (Including Pivots, Vlookup), PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Lotus Notes 9.0 and databases, Slack, Cognos BI

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

M.B.A., Finance, 1990

New York University Stern School of Business

B.S.B.A., Finance, 1985

Georgetown University

CPA Qualified (NC License pending)

Professional Affiliations

Financial Executives Networking Group, Board Member/Treasurer, Picardy Pointe HOA (1/2011 – 12/2019)

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Professional Experience

IBM Corp.

Multiple Positions 04/1997 – 04/2020

Global Business Partners, Sr. Business Controls and compliance advisor Rtp, NC 4/2005 – 4/2020

Scope: Provided controls and process design guidance and leadership to IBM business partner sales and marketing teams for both ongoing corporate Sarbanes Oxley 404 compliance activities as well as for corporate proactive reviews and internal audits. Drove the quarterly process towards completion of quarterly Management Self Assessments. This included ensuring that testers in both North America and in global support centers performed timely and accurate testing of key controls, using corporate testing guidance. Partnered with testers to ensure defect remediation plans for control deficiencies met corporate risk management guidelines for the SOX Section 404 management certification.

Key Business Impacts & Responsibilities:

»Satisfactory quarterly assessments for North America business partner management organization through testing, risk analysis and control identification for successive years. Quarterly compliance testing of key controls for channel disbursement programs and management processes.

»Advice and counsel to Business partner channel management team to ensure that business partner sales incentive programs meet SOX risk parameters/control points, IBM corporate guidelines, and are 100% audit ready.

»Coordinate management response to corporate internal audit requests, for business partner sales channel and related engagements. Proactive liaison involvement assured Satisfactory corporate audit ratings.

»Team lead for business partner sales channel Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) testing, including review of program testing results and extensive communication with process owners and testers. Ensure defect remediation plans for control and process deficiencies meet corporate risk management guidelines for the SOX quarterly Section 404 management certification.

»Proactively audit Business partner channel processes in offshore locations to both assess team compliance with process controls and advise management on potential areas of improvement to meet corporate and external control guidelines.

»Create control points and testing guidance for new programs and for process changes as required.

»Coordinate all process walkthroughs with IBM's external auditor (PWC).

»Business Partner Compliance Advisor (2019 – 2020) Perform business partner compliance reviews, testing to ensure compliance with IBM special bid pricing and comarketing program contract terms. Communicate results to senior business partner management and collaborate as required to recover penalties or reinforce guidelines.

IBM - Financial Planning Manager, Americas Marketing White Plains NY 4/1999 – 4/2005

Scope: Managed annual budget process, developed and communicated: budget planning timelines, resource rates, and relevant financial and marketing metrics to Marketing management for funding discussions with IBM brand management.

Key Business Impacts & Responsibilities:

»Created consolidated view of Marketing operating plans, detailing total brand investment in both resource and marketing program expense to both formulate accurate staffing plans relative to onboard resources and determine ratio of Program to Non-Program expense for measurement against corporate targets.

»Presented monthly expense and headcount results, analysis and guidance, recommend actions required to meet quarterly expense targets.

Prior Experience

»Financial Analyst, IBM - Direct Marketing White Plains, NY 4/1997 – 4/1999

»Assistant Treasurer, Donnelley Marketing, Inc. Stamford, CT 2/1991 – 9/1996

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